https://store.steampowered.com/app/4958460/Touhou_Bansho_Cards/

Touhou stuff. AI art. Has an LGBT tag on it. Apparently has some sort of relationship-building system but not sure how romantic it gets.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3636460/Miss_Sasami_is_Losing_Her_Mind/
It's out

yeah like I'm pretty sure the protagonist is bi, I haven't played the narrative prologue tho

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3743260/Virtue_and_a_Sledgehammer/
has the relevant tags, and the game has been described as "lesbian rage" by gaming outlets but I also know romance is very much not a focus. I only played the demo a while back and won't be able to play it until my computer is up and running again. I'll have more insight when that happens.

About Virtue and a Sledgehammer: I played the free narrative prologue they posted on Pantaloon few days ago (which is not the demo on Steam, it's a prequel short story) and there's a scene where the protagonist says that many people assume she is a lesbian because how she appears and acts, but this frustrates her because she isn't lesbian.

I think I'm going to buy it regardless because I liked the demo and the developers' previous games, I'll let you know if there's anything.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4834840/Ecstatica/
Can pick a female protag, has a yuri ending. But it is absolutely not a focus at all, just some neat historical footnote about having same-sex rep in ancient games.

I asked a couple of friends about Castlevania and apparently it's just Carmilla flirting with Rose, probably not wort a listing :x

Speaking of which, can you add this to the list then? https://store.steampowered.com/app/2525810/Witch_and_Lilies/
There is no sign this will ever go out of EA or be updated and it was already a full yuri experience from release, so it can be on the list.
(The negatvie reviews obviously don't matter, but just for context people were angry over it getting abandoned, the game itself is fully beatable and feature complete)

And we can't properly review the content of a game that's openly incomplete - sometimes they're promising a lesbian romance that hasn't happened yet, sometimes we just have no idea where it's going. Officially abandoned EA games with yuri can sometimes be added when we're reasonably sure that's all it's getting so we can at least list what's there.

or worse, never finished and left in EA forever

It's alright; it's an easy mistake to make. The main reason for only listing released games is that a lot of Early Access get cancelled, etc.

Oh I never noticed that all the games on the list were outside of early access. My mistake

I'll back up Ad Nauseum, it's from one of the toxic yuri devs and the game has been out on itch.io for a while. Game is a bit extreme but it's for sure yuri

the tags could be just for carmilla which is a little weak even if true

Mostly because tags are user generated and any mainstream game gets the LGBT tag as a "joke". Though if you want to be technical, Carmilla is portrayed as a lesbian in the game (finally book accurate). But adding the LGBT tag for one boss character is a bit much.

anyone know why the new castlevania game has an lgbtq+ tag?

I have Sticker Detective, but I'm currently stuck, probably because of a bug.
There are some lesbian/queer characters, maybe also the protagonist, I'll write it in detail once I manage to finish it.
I also bought LaurEli, I'll probably start it later.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5096240/Jane_Friday_After_Hours/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4387730/Sticker_Detective_By_the_Book/

No idea why either of these has LGBT tags, will investigate further.

Cornucopia is currently in Early Access anyways.

huh, that's unusual, i'm region-blocked on that. I can't see the store page at all. I tried three different countries with the same result.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1681600/Cornucopia/
I've been told by the creator of this game that you can have wlw relationships and raise children with them

I'm going to try to play it myself, I like ace attorney, I like weird girls. It should work for me. My expectations are set on yuri subtext but I think it'll be fun regardless

If I weren't SO overburdened this week I'd just buy LaurEli and play it through, sounds like my jam. I still might, I just can't promise!

No that's fair, I thought the first one was cute and I look forward to playing the second this weekend when I'll have some time. I'll let you know if it's yuri enough for the list. But right now it's sounding like a slow burn over a few games.

If you liked the first one the second one does continue that relationship, apparently, it's just less of a focus than it was in the first game so it makes more sense to me to list the first. Sorry I have to be vague I haven't played any of this!

I've had eyes on it but I'm not sure how strong the romance elements are, except I can see how that girl with the red eyes looks at the player character like, damn

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5018720/LaurEli_the_Blood_Dipped_Manor/
Anyone tried this one? Says that has toxic yuri dynamics. I wonder if there are proper yuri endings?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3755350/Alice_Nation/
This game is in fact yuri, but it's not easy to put in words, so I would suggest the "Story revolves around the relationship between two girls" line often used by this curator.
For more details check the General Games topic, where I elaborate on the main relationship.

Oh is there going to be a 3rd game with thee characters? I remember at one point they said they wanted more stories in this world after 2 but they'd likely have different characters. But Yeah can confirm girls express attraction to each other in the first time. I'll be honest it's a little disappointing to hear for game 2. I was hoping for some payoff to that.

I talked to the Reborn A Zombie dev and from their description it may actually make more sense to list the first one and not the second - it seems like we're not getting smooches either way with that couple but there's a possible hint of something else that might be more traditionally romantic by game 3. So I'm thinking list the first and then see how the last turns out.

It's marketed as yuri even though the steam page didn't mention it and the description says the main character was kicked out after being outed. So I think it's a strong list contender

@kailally you can DM me if you want an answer

GUYS if you want ot keep talking about ladykiller please MAKE A THREAD so it doesn't clutter up the front page here any further - We almost never list DLCs anyway (I think it's mostly only been if a game isn't yuri but the DLC adds it?) so it's not relevant to making determinations, and no one can properly find or reply to anything you say here.

I'm slightly confused on what content is actually in the game. Was it previously het conversion + blackmail, with the het conversion removed, or was it het conversion changed into blackmail?

I was not ambushed by Corpse Party having a detailed description of eyeballs getting dug out with a spoon. I was ambushed by het blackmail rape in a presented-as-lesbian game.

Now, there's obviously something to be said about writers subverting expectations, springing traps on readers, etc., but I for one won't be touching this dlc, and I will warn people about what they can possibly be subjected to.

Het conversion is not real, so it cannot be a real "bad thing in the world". It does not actually work. It's not a real process, it is just violence done to real people with no result. You cannot become straight if you weren't born that way. Even implying this is possible in fiction is already supporting the idea. Especially in a "realistic" setting like this. The very inclusion in this scenario is by default fetishistic. And that was the author's true vision.
Once again, there was zero purpose to this that the normal blackmail plot couldn't already have delivered. You are ignoring the context in favor of some vague "but it made me feel things" rebuttal. Many bad things can make you feel something, that doesn't mean they deserve to exist.

Also I am not taking advice from you, who has made confrontational posts over and over again. You are just lucky that you were ignored most of the time...
We are done here. Conversation over.

I'm not excusing it because it's optional, I'm not even excusing it. I'm accepting it. I think that you're off base about what that ending is like and that you're wrong to damn any portrayal of things that are bad in the world. I don't think it's fetishizing or pandering to the kinds of people into corrective rape, I do think it's messy and puts a lot on the reader to process the scene. I think that's a valid way to make art. Because I'm not trying to handwave it. Getting that ending sucked and took several days for me to fully process. I think art should hurt sometimes.

I get that we're at a fundamental level experiencing this content differently, but your assumptions genuinely gross me out. You were out of line to call me dishonest. and I wish you could have a normal discussion without turning every single topic to an argument it's exhausting and it makes this group a hostile environment.

No. Het conversion is a malicious concept used by male domination movements as propaganda against real homosexuals. Making this an explicitely fetishistic ending is abhorrent and not a statement about such movements. It's something the author thought people would enjoy.
You can put up your "bad ending" shield all you want, but many people are explicitely into such bad ending scenarios for unacceptable reasons. And this author had no reason to cater to that group other than being okay with it on some level.

You just excuse anything as long as it's optional, which is not honest.

We can and should have art that goes to dark places and explores the darker sides of the human condition and instead of whining and complaining you just don't have to engage

I'm going to disagree, portraying a bad thing isn't endorsing the bad thing and the framing is that it's bad. I'm sorry you can't get there and in that case I would say then just don't play it. But your points are extremely off base.

The issues are more about having this garbage in it at all. First of all, there was no reason to have it. It is just fetishising lesbians being put in this position. The original het conversion ending speaks for itself. That is a level of anti-lesbian sentiment that should be condemned. The fact that it only got "better" after massive backlash proves that the author has zero care or awareness and only pulled back after being shamed for it. And even then, kept the blackmail ending in.

Separate art from the artist if you want, but judge the art by what it really shows (or showed), not be how it was (badly) sanitized.

*shrug* I didn't feel ambushed by it, and it read to me as clearly a bad ending. making it harder to get was probably a good call. TBH I don't actually think het bad endings make something not yuri

Ladykiller was patched to make it hard to reach the blackmail het content. When it was first released, it was 100% an ambush. I know because I walked right into it, and I certainly wasn't trying to.

Despicable. One of the few times a "Not Recommended" is fully justified.

People have short memory. Ladykiller in a bind was advertised as 100% yuri and it was not, so false advertising. Second: bad het ending is what left after author changed other scene (het conversion scene) after huge backslash.

Yeah, but it was in a bad end that you had to be fairly deliberately screwing around in order to reach, iirc, not something that dropped on you by surprise while you were pursuing a normal relationship. But we did downgrade it from a full yuri listing when we found out.

yeah, it's a game that covers difficult topics it's not like it's hiding that fact

Wasn't that the game with a surprise het blackmail rape scene?

just a heads up for everyone, ladykiller in a bind just got dlc yesterday

@Hanako, I brought up the first game before, mentioning that romance doesn't really happen but women do express attraction for each other and was basically told to wait for the sequel to see if either should be listed.